The American Music Show was a weekly television series created and broadcast in Atlanta from 1981 until 2005. One of the longest-running public access cable television programs, it acquired cult status and helped launch the career of RuPaul, who appeared numerous times on the show. Existing at a unique intersection of queer underground and post–civil rights era Black Atlanta, The American Music Show’s emphasis on drag, irreverent satire, and DIY aesthetic was a harbinger of queer visibility in mainstream American entertainment and contemporary consumer-generated, internet-distributed media.

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Walter F. George was one of Georgia’s longest-serving members of the U.S. Senate (1922-57), and he distinguished himself in terms of his diplomatic influence during World War II (1941-45) and the early years of the cold war. While George opposed Franklin D. Roosevelt’s nomination for president in 1932, he supported several of his early New Deal programs. He broke with Roosevelt in his second presidential term, however, particularly over his attempts to pack the U.

The West Point Dam and Lake was constructed in Troup County by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during the 1960s and 1970s to help control flooding in the area. Today the lake is a popular public recreation area. Courtesy of U.S. Army Corps of Engineers The New Georgia Encyclopedia does not hold the copyright for this media resource and can neither grant nor deny permission to republish or reproduce the image online or in print.

William Louis Jones first attained recognition as a professor of science and agriculture at the University of Georgia and later as a journalist, serving as editor of the Southern Cultivator and then as editor of Henry W. Grady’s journal, Southern Farm. He was also the first director of the Georgia Agricultural Experiment Station (later the Georgia Experiment Station in Griffin). Through his writings on scientific agriculture and in his role as a professor, Jones influenced scores of Georgians and other southerners.